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Our project: police and community in C20th Scotland Historical mapping of relationship between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities they served To historicise our understanding of ‘Community Policing’ (origins; mythologies) To contribute to current debates about local policing and community policing

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Today’s presentation Highland and islands Idealisation of the village bobby (progenitor of ‘community policing’) What were characteristics of the model of policing delivered in these areas? How different were they to the experience of urban policing in Scotland? How did they change? Strengths and weaknesses: what can we learn from this?

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Table C: Strengths and weakness of earlier model of policing for building trust and legitimacyHighlandEarly C20thLate C20thStrengths Embeddedness: Potential for deep qualitative relationships based on mutual trust Role as generalist: builds up trust Discretion: response is personalised and bespoke to meet individual need High levels of professional training Emphasis on structures and procedures: impartiality Improvement in resources and working conditions (resilience) Weaknesses Discretion: too dependent on character and personality Potential to be viewed as partisan Lack of professional training Lack of specialist knowledge Emphasis on structures and procedures: lack of flexibility Lack of embeddedness (movement of officers)

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